The Simmons Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 17, Ed. 1, Saturday, January 25, 1930 Page: 2 of 4
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A weekly newspaper published every Saturday during tho' school year by
the Simmons Press Club in tho interest of Simmons University.
festered a second class mail matter Juno 22 1898 at tho postofficc
Abilene Texas under the act of March 3 1879.
Subscription Per Year.............. ..........
Subscription Per Term
4200
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Member of Texas Intercollegiate Press Association.
Campus Office Room 108 Science Building.
Downtown Office Abilene Printing and Stationery Co.
EDITORIAL STAFF
Jack Scorr Editor in Chief
Georce GLAiNER ..'.....'.. Managing Editor
Emmett Howard Associate Editor
Wilfred Haccard
L. P. Walter Jr.
William Wheeler
0. C McDermitt
Fay Thomas
A. R. Ttson -
BUSINESS STAFF
Sports
Business Manager
Asst. Business Manager
Advertising
Auditor
Circulation Manager
REPORTERS: Mary McKcnzie Edgar S. Kcefe Mary Ruth Boles Rufus
Hyde V. Marie Stephens Fcldon Reed Nita Donaho John D. Harvey and
trancis ryor.
Open Range
By Noll Sewell
It was klnda hard to beer watch
ing some big ole football man take
your honey away from you for the
banquet. At least that Is what I
gathered while loafing down at the
corner last Saturday night.
That banquet was reported a huge
success but It was plenty well earned
by the boys. It has gotten around
here to where the football men don't
receive all the favors they should. The
boys are anxious for their sweaters
and It is a shame that they don't
have them during all these cold bpcIIs
Prom whnt I hear over toward tho
cafeteria Campbell is sort of cured of
tho gambling habit. That one bet will
be remembered all his life. That goes
to provo that " you can't tell about
theso wlmmen."
j From Other Campuses i
Forty-nino students withdrew from
C. I. A. this semester according to
cards filed in tho registrar's office.
Illness was the cause of nearly half
of the withdrawals totaling 21. Mar-
riage was the cause of six leaving
and four changed schools. Other
causes given were those of poor
work financial inability suspension
and illness or death of parents.
TOMORROW
' By J. Ralph Grant.
Tomorrow! What magic in that word! Certainly no man has ever
achieved any worthwhile task for humanity without a superb faith in and
a definite anitcipation of tomorrow. Although the futuro is veiled in
mystery men of poise and distinction have always anchored their fondest
hopes and aspirations in that vale. Today's ideal is destined to become
tomorrow's reality. As you sow today so shall you reap tomorrow; as
you think today so shall you act tomorrow; and as you aspire today so
shall you achieve tomorrow.
There is a story of Michael Angelo that should thrill every red-
blooded American boy and girl on the earth. This great master had given
himself to the task of making a great display of sculpture on the ceiling of
the Cathedral which was then undergoing completion in Rome. Day after
day he applied the chisel and the hammer with the stroke of an artist.
He was obscured from sight because of the scaffold on which he worked.
There he became so lost in his task that he forgot himself and took food
only as friends brought it up to him. At last the scaffold was torn away.
Tho world is yet admiring this mighty piece of work. Each year pilgrims
from all sections of the globe go there and stand amazed as they gaze upon
that lasting work. It is told that the sculptor the author of that master-
piece forever afterwards went about with his head lifted toward the heavens.
He had been so lost in his task that it had become impossible to regain his
former posture.
Let us hear the challenge of that tomorrow. Let us set our faces like
flint toward a worthwhile project until we too shall walk with our very
souls lifted toward the heavens. Let us give reign to the constructive forces
of our being. Tomorrowt What magic is that word!
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THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT
John: Do you ever have any time
for recreation?
Second Band Boy: No. I have a
Bible class under Fitzgerald.
I wonder what has become of the
scholarship society? Maybe there
arc no members In school. Unless I
am mistaken I haven't heard the
club's name mentioned in chapel.
Probably that is a sign of the de
parting school spirit we read about.
And then too Wednesday chapel is
attended more regularly than last
year you old students can guess why.
The basketball boys have done
michty well so far but it seems that
they arc just waiting for Tech to come
up here before they really show their
stuff. From all indications the rivalry
that was sought between Simmons
and the plains instltuto has now been
established.
And the junior program and theme
committees have chosen to keep the
whole thing secret until the big night.
That just goes to provo If you don't
go you will miss the treat of a life
time.
And another old favorite is the subject of clothes. Once it was short
skirts now it is long skirts and pajamas. A lot of liberals who hailed the
advent of the short skirt as just one more indication of the emancipation
of women and the new generation and the triumph of common sense and
personal comfort over false modesty and worn out morality arc beginning
to wonder if they were not a bit hasty in their acclamations. While they
are boosting hardily tho coming "emancipation of men" on the one hand
they are hard pressed to keep the women's freedom in dress movement
from sliding back down hill.
As in many other things perhaps more important the question will
probably be settled by a compromise which in its turn will become a
center of controversy and be settled by another compromise and so on.
Whilo the change to the short skirt seems to have been influenced
more by fashion and less by "modern ideas" than was once held the era
of the short skirt at least eliminated most of whatever prudish prejudices
there used to be against it; and it will therefore meet less opposition as
it comes and goes with the fluctuations of popular favor.
Perhaps it is more common out here in the open west for one to wear
about what he pleases. However that is the new vogue of dress will prob
ably always be started by a few stronc minded personalities who dare to
wear what they please and will be sprea dabout by the vast majority of
iiraiu sums wno win uc pieascti 10 wear wnai me omcrs anrc.
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SOME DO NOT
Whilo wo are on the subject this
date business might be mentioned. If
you do not havo a date don't get sick
at heart and quit dig around some-
body will be tickled to death go with
you.
Tho first definito action toward the
financing and construction of a new
stadium for T. C. U. was taken at a
meeting in the Fort Worth Club
on Monday night of last week. The
stadium as planned at tho meeting
will bo constructed of concrete and
steel and will have n seating capacity
of 30000. It will be so constructed
however that it can bo enlarged to
scat 60000 and -there will bo a park
ing place provided for between 10000
and 15000 cars.
Taklics wcro almost unanimously
selected by the 100 T. C. U. students
who were asked their opinions as to
whether they preferred silent pic
tures or talkies.) There wcro just
nlno Btudcnts who preferred silent
movies. Theso 100 student attend
152 shows a week. The Skiff.
Since tho Christmas holidays a new
sport has struck Tulane's campuji
that of roller skatingl After a suc-
cessful robbery of the young brothers
Christmas pile every ono and his
dog is skatingl' Parties of two or
three couples havo abandoned their
usual pastimes and gone to skating.
Now its a case of "skate date and
bo merry foij tomorrow you may
flunk!"
There were UK students on tho fall
term honor roll from Austin College
at Sherman. This honor roll is made
up of students who pass their courses
and make a general nvcroge of 00
or above.
Smart students eh what?
debating teams at Northwestern uni-
versity Evanston Illinois as ho gave
out his call for women debaters and
sat back and waited for tho rush.
As yet no ono has appeared. North-
western may not have a women's de-
bating team this year
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MARY FRANCES WET PAINT
The advanced journalism students
report they are having a grand time
covering tho district and city court
sessions.
Elsie was plenty surprised when
she learned of her bud's hitching. This
marriage proposition is serious and
should be considered with a level head
before and after meals. It not only
means a sister-in-law to Elsie but
another name on her Christmas list.
And what do you know? One of
our fair co-eds has become so en
grossed in her race for the males that
she has resorted to dying her eye-
brows. Now If that wouldn't kill you
then what would? It just goes to
prove that these town girls are hav-
ing a tuff time of running it over the
hall flappers.
On another page of the Brand there is an article giving the percentage
of Simmons students who made all A's and A pluses of those who made
all A's and B's and of those who failed in two or more subjects during the
fall quarter. A review of this sort always gives rise to the ever recurrent
scholastic question of the degree to which good grades indicate intelligence
ana capauuuy una 10 comparison ueiween me students who make high
grades and those who do not.
It has been a popular belief Tor a long time (and still is) that the
chief reason many students do not make high grades is that they simply do
not go in for that sort of thing; they are supposed to be more interested
in social and business than in academic life. Not long ago in the Hygeia
magazine however there appeared a brief report to the effect that the
popular belief was in error and that lower grades were actually the result
of a lower mentality. Nevertheless general opinion on the problem still
persists and it appears to have a pretty good basis.
It is supposed that the average college student feels that he can learn
more from contact with his fellows in their social athletic and other non-
academic phases of activity than he can from devoting a largo part of his
time to school hooks. On the other hand if he considered that the time
spent would be worthwhile he could make grades as high as any book
worm. There is some evidence for this idea in the known fact that many
B and C students have on cespecial subject in which they are interested and
usually make a high cradc in it.
At any rate the importance of making high grades is not emphasized
so much as it once was. Probably no widespread envy was aroused by the
publication of the names of those making the highest records last term.
The other students feel that there are other pursuits just as profitable or
more so. And perhaps they are right. A northern college daily comes
out "in defense of the tea hound" and wagers that the social favorite the
"most popular" stude will be able to cash in on his experiences as abund-
antly as the conscientious studier. This paper holds that being able to mix
with the crowd and to hold forth in small talk is rather essential in the
modern game of business.
So that if the student feels that he can learn more about human nature
by going to a party or to a basketball game tonight than by staying at homo
digging to make an A plus in psychology he will likely turn up with an
B or C at the end of the term; but he will also likely know quite as much
valuable phychology (both financially and otherwise) as the A student.
Human beings are doubtless acted upon by the same moving laws of cause
and effect whether they are seen at a ball game in the study or buying
insurance from a college-educated salesman.
In other words about all that may be said when the subject of good
grades arises is that some make them and some do not.
If I am not mis-informed another
would be Smith Hall sheik cost one
charming young lady a railroad fare
hero and back and two days of school.
While on tho subject I might as well
tell the weekly love story.
You nil know the cuto little junior
from Memphis. You are also ac
quainted with tho chesty yell leader
tho racing water boy and tho snaring
boy from Amarillo. Well it is just
tho same old triangle only this is a
rectangle it would be square but it is
reported all is not on the square
Waco's heart is broken and ho is seen
practicing drumming everywhere. The
clarinetist is gloomy and tho little
Frenchman from tho city of ice is
smiling all over himself at his seem-
ing triumph. Good luck and may the
best man win.
An announcement has been sent
out from tho School of Medicine of
the University of Oklahoma which
states that future admission in tho
medical school depends upon recom
mendations from tho school where
the pre-medic work was done. To
gether with the recommendation an
interview will bo held with the stu-
dents. This will have an important
bearing upon the student's admis-
sion in this department.
Dr. S. P. Brooks has just received a
letter from Major General William
G. Evcrson chief of the Militia Bu-
reau at Washington D. C expressing
his appreciation for tho Baylor pen-
nant which will tour the United
States and Porto Rico with him. The
first announcement of Evcrson's
plans appeared in the Daily Lariat
some time ago Boon after Evcrson
had made the request for the pen-
nant. Daily Lariat.
Weather weather weather . . . that
is all wo havo been having around
here. Tho first thing I notice every
morning is tho weather. Sometimes
I notico it sooner than other times
For insance when it is clear and I can
sco tho light through my window ... I
get to my eight o'clock class. When
it is ns dark nt eight as it is at six
why I don't usually discover the
weather until later.
I can't remember when it wasn't
snowing and I wish that S. U. wcro
located in Havana Cuba. Or maybe
it is snowing thero too. Really I be-
lieve that tho long looked for Ice
Age is here. When I start to class
cvory day I fully expect to encounter
a glacier on the way there. Don't
you -have a mental picture of a co-
ed encountering a glacier? When I
start back to Mary Frances Hall I'm
surprised that it isn't an igloo. Some-
times I havo to slip off down town to
look at the sign on tho railway sta-
tion to see whether wo nro still in
Abilene Texas or wo have been
transported to Nome Alaska.
And tho wind man you've no idea
unless you have lived in a room with
n north exposure in Mary Frances
Hall. The other night thoro was a
terrific scream from third floor and
when the horrified girl was question-
ed she said that she heard ghosts.
Upon investigation of tho Fire De-
partment and Cop Anthony they
found it to be only the wind whistling
through Esther Pierce's and Mildred
Butler's bones as it camo through tho
cracks around their windows.
I sec in the paper too where wo
nro going to havo a cold spell. Don't
you just dote on cold weather? It is
so Invigorating. Of course this may
seem a triflo old by now but really
we notico the weather in this dormi-
tory. Perhaps next week wo can give you
something moro definito concerning
tho weather but this week my type-
writer has frozen fingers and the
only words it will write arc: igloo
icicles temperature frigid frozen
frosty blizzard wintry and
weather.
BITS OF NEWS
"The Campus is probably tho only
paper in existence with a woman
sports editor" Walter Mooro editor
said Friday. Betty Fiscr for two
years sports assistant on the Campus
staff was appointed sports editor
Thursday to fill the position vacated
by the resignation of Jack Hogan
who resigned to bo managing editor.
Miss Fiser is a junior in tho School
of Arts and Sciences and is major-
ing in journalism. Semi-Weekly
Campus.
Some African relics hav ebeen pre-
sented to the S. M. U. museum by
an African. Among theso relics are
a battle ax with a hand carved ivory
handle a long spear and a carved
stool. Semi-Weekly Campus.
That Famous Continued Story
(Chapter 13)
The small child ran to tho switch
and then saw that tho movio hadn't
started anyway. It was hot and
though tho ico was still on tho
ground it was' time to retire. Not a
soul had brought any bread so tho
ship sailed away with tho captive.
It was raining and tho moose sang n
little mooso song to tho little moose
in tho llttlo moose's cradle. As tho
wind swept around the corner it was
heard to shout to the building "So
it is you eh?" And the small kittio
cat meowed back in a scream like a
lion caught In a mouso trap "Who
me?"
Moral: FIELDERS HAS MOVED
TO NORTH SIDE.
Baylor University will be the scene
of tho annual reunion of tho Baylor
and allied families of America for
1030 according to Dr. S. P. Brooks.
This reunion will take place on tho
university campus the week preced-
ing tho commencement exercises and
will last over a period of three days.
Unveiling of tho oil portrait of R.
E. B Baylor in whoso honor Baylor
University is named (recently pre-
sented to tho university) will bo de-
ferred until the annual reunion of the
Baylor clan. Daily Lariat.
"Speech is woman's unchallenged
prerogative" stated Professor C. C.
Cunningham who coaches women's
L. T. B.'s Meet Monday.
The "Loud Town Bunch" held their
regular meeting Monday morning In
the university auditorium. Frcdico
Weathers was elected secretary to
succeed Elizabeth Fletcher who did
not return to school this term.
Miss Mamie Gene Halo has return-
ed to school from her home in Bolling-
er whero she attended the funeral of
her little nephew Robert Lewis Hale
Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Melvtn Plttman of
Anson attended the ball game here
Monday evening
Mrs. Nat Shick has returned to her
homo in Big Spring after spending a
few days here with her daughter
Lillian Shick.
Miss Carolino Couch a senior in
McMurry visited Simmons friends
Tuesday evening and attended tho
gome here with Wayland.
Miss Sarah Rebecca Brown of
Coleman visited Gladys Keen in Mary
Frances last week end.
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